You Know You're In Scotland When. . . .

(I'm sitting in the coffee shop again and have a quick moment to throw something on the blog and I thought this was most appropriate. We should be online from our flat sometime early next week. Until then, enjoy this. . ..)

* You are standing next a middle-aged gentleman in the grocery line and he's wearing a polo shirt. But it's not just any polo shirt. The little crest over his heart says this: "Royal Musselburgh Golf Club. Established 1774" Yeah, a golf club older than the United States of America!

* Your daughter says to a man standing on the sidewalk, "Nice kilt." To which he winks and says, "Its a good thing she didn't call it a skirt."

* Your other daughter gets into the back of a taxi and looks up at the front left seat (in which no one is sitting because the driver is over on the right side) and says, "who's driving the taxi?!"

* You ask for a pound of cheese and get cheese that costs a pound.

* You plug your computer into the wall through two adapters and still end up blowing out the speakers.

* You go for a "drive in the country" and stop by a little country church in the middle of some farmer's field--and find out that it was built in 1550.

* You walk into a cigar shop and ask the question (foolishly): "which ones are the Cubans?" to which the proprieter answers with a little bit of a smile, "Sir, they're ALL Cubans."

* Your kitchen is plumbed for your washing machine.

* When you finally get that when people are walking up to you and saying "HiYa!" they are not getting ready to judo chop you, but are just saying "Hi!"

* When the Whiskey smells like old socks and the sea.

* "Going to the Post" means you are actually paying every bill you've got, picking up some milk and fruit, getting cash, finding a paper, AND mailing your letters.

* The beer is flatter but better.

* You can tell native Scots by the sweat pouring off their brow and nose, the red cheeks and the swearing at the heat--in 70-degree weather.

There's lots more, but this will have to do. Hope you enjoyed! This has all been part of the adventure of getting used to living here!
Dust